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Ocean Sciences 290B Topics in Biological Oceanography

UCSC Resources:

• CruzCat (UCSC's Library Catalog):
  • Keyword search on your topic
  • Online historical fish catch data can be found via a Subject search:  Fisheries -- California -- Statistics
• Other Library Catalogs >> See SideBar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 

• UCSC Library Special Collections and Archives (Note limited hours): http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/
  • Oral histories on local families (Stagnaro, etc.) who were involved in fishing, historical photos depicting fishing and Monterey Bay, books on local fisheries.
  • Contact special collections in person or via email: speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
  • Local history, Santa Cruziana
  • UCSC - Regional History Project- (Oral histories of Santa Cruz, Agricultural History in Santa Cruz County)
  • Finding Aids (from Online Archive of California)
    • Search Images -- search for Monterey Bay
  • Hihn-Younger Archive (at UCSC) http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/hihn/index_html
• UCSC Map Room (S&E Library): http://library.ucsc.edu/maps/
  • CRUZCAT Maps & atlases limit: http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/search~S4
• Lucia Orlando, Government Documents Librarian, McHenry Library

Government Documents/Serials

•  California. Dept. of Fish and Game: Fish bulletin
• Fish bulletin CruzCat: online v.1-, and print: scattered holdings in S&E Stacks SH11.C27
• Fish bulletin via Scripps & CDL eScholarship Repository
• Fish bulletin statistics via via Scripps & CDL eScholarship Repository
• California fish and game. 1 (1914)- S&E Stacks SH11.C34
  • CruzCat
• Army Corps of Engineering?
• Dept of Interior?

• Journal of the History of Biology (see CruzCat)

Monterey Bay Resources: 

• Monterey Public Library "California Room"
  • Dennis Copeland has the "California Room" with lots of primary source type material on Monterey
  • Also wrote a book available at the Santa Cruz public library:

    A Monterey album : life by the bay / by Dennis Copeland and Jeanne McCombs.

• Maritime Museum of Monterey
  • esp. historian Tim Thomas, at Tim@montereyhistory.org or 831-372-2608 extension 17) might know of or

    be able to provide access to some great resources.

• Researcher's Anonymous, Santa Cruz http://www.santacruzmah.org/index.php?page=researchers-anonymous
  • MAH-sponsored interest group that meets monthly for lectures, tours, workshops, and roundtable discussions.
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (CSU): http://mlmllibrary.mlml.calstate.edu
  • Joan Parker, Librarian
• CSUMB Library: http://library.csumb.edu/
  • Steve Watkins, Librarian
• Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford): http://www-marine.stanford.edu/index.htm
  • Monterey Climate Data (1949-1994)
    • http://hopkins.stanford.edu/library/climate.html
  • Miller Library
    • Joe Wieble, Librarian
• NOAA -- unique items include:
  • Kit Johnston is the librarian
  • Lenarz, W. H.

    1987. A history of California rockfish fisheries. In: Proceedings of the International Rockfish Symposium (October 1986, Anchorage, Alaska), p. 35-41. University of Alaska, Sea Grant Report 87-2.

  • California commercial landings data back to 1931

    • The Fisheries Ecology Division’s Groundfish Analysis Team completed work on a California commercial landings database covering 1931 to 2007. Landings from 1931 through 1968 were recovered using funds and services provided by the NESDIS Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP). The recovered data, when combined with more recent landings estimates from the California Cooperative Groundfish Survey from 1969-2007, forms one of the longest detailed catch records in the US. The 1931-68 period includes monthly summaries of catches by 10-minute geographic blocks. These data are now openly available to the public for use in stock assessments and monitoring of climate effects.

• USGS (Santa Cruz)
  • Allan Allwardt, Librarian (Geologist)
• California Academy of Sciences: http://research.calacademy.org/research/library/
• Santa Cruz Sentinel Library:
  • NOT open to the public.  Call the Sentinel librarian at (831) 423-4242 for article citations.  http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/time/sentlib.shtml
• Naval Postgraduate School? http://www.nps.edu/Library/
• National Sea Grant Library: http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/

Online Archives

• Online Archive of California (OAC): http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
  • Historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives.
  • Example: search for 'squid' to see the variety of hits, from online Dorothea Lange photos (#11),  to online photos of Chinese fisherman in the Monterey Bay (#14) to Henry J. Mello papers in UCSC Special Collections. 

• NOAA Photo Library: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/search.html
• California Views: The Pat Hathaway Collection of Historical Photos: http://caviews.com/
  • California Views was established in 1970 and is located in historic Monterey. Canneries thumbprint online. 

Article Databases (UCSC access): mostly scientific articles, some books

• http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bysubject/SCIENG
  • History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    • Example: search for fisheries
  • Dissertation Abstracts
  • ASFA Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstract (CSA)
  • Oceanic Abstracts (CSA)
  • Zoological Record (CSA)
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt (CSA)
  • Georef (CSA)
  • Biological Abstracts (ISI)
  • Web of Science (ISI)
  • Agricola
  • Regional Business News
  • Business Source Premier

Newspapers - Local

• Santa Cruz Sentinel: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/
  • Archives searchable from August 14, 1999- :
• Santa Cruz Local News Index: http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/oldnews/
  • Online index to early newspapers published in Santa Cruz, California, including the Santa Cruz Daily Surf (1883 - 1900), the Santa Cruz Evening News, and the Pacific Sentinel and the Santa Cruz Sentinel (1856 - 1884).

Newspapers - California

• Los Angeles Times (online UCSC only) 1881-present
  • Fish Data for Southern California

 Other Databases

• Cumulative Bibliography on the History of Oceanography
• AVANO an open-access collection of reports, publications and grey literature in the marine and aquatic sciences: http://www.ifremer.fr/avano/
• Aquatic Commons digital repository? http://aquacomm.fcla.edu/information.html
• OceanDocs? http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/
• National Sea Grant Depository Database indexes Sea Grant publications and provides selective full-text in PDF format: http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/searchguide.html

Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

• Example: search for basking shark california (see 4th page)

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search

Bibliography Creation

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• EndNote Web (free): http://library.ucsc.edu/science/endnote/
• CalCat and other online databases will format your citation to cut/paste

Contact Information:

Ann Hubble, Librarian, UCSC Science & Engineering Library

ahubble@ucsc.edu, 459-4974